bulldoze

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To destroy with a bulldozer.

   “He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.”

2. fiil To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".

   “He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.”

3. fiil To push through forcefully.

   “For the second time in a week, Wenger's team gave themselves an encouraging platform. In the 11th minute Theo Walcott drilled in a corner, and Olivier Giroud bulldozed through unopposed to thump the ball goalwards.”

4. fiil To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.

   “Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.”

5. fiil To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.

   “That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.”

6. fiil To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

   “The practice of whipping and killing negroes in the Southern States was called bull-dozing. The word is a corruption of bull dose, or strong dose - in the sense that a bull fence is a strong fence. “Give him the bull dose” was the direction when a negro had to be severely punished.”